a truck in early years, and uses a wooden toy mallet as an assistive cane (although he is still able to walk even without it). Lotso is the leader of the toys at the Sunnyside Daycare, and initially acts like a kind-hearted and wise caretaker, but is eventually revealed to be a ruthless and deceptive prison warden. Lotso, Big Baby, and Chuckles once belonged to a little girl named Daisy, whom Lotso adored. When Daisy fell asleep and accidentally left them at a rest stop, Lotso led the toys on a long journey home, only to find that Daisy's parents had replaced him with a duplicate. Embittered beyond the point of sanity, Lotso lied to Big Baby that Daisy had replaced all of them, intimidated Chuckles (who knew the truth) into silence, and forced them both to come with him to Sunnyside. There, he established a totalitarian rule, forbidding any toys from leaving or escaping back to their owners and ensuring that the only way out is through the trash, which he believes is where all toys are destined. When Woody exposes the truth, Big Baby throws Lotso into a dumpster, and his followers abandon him. Lotso, seeking revenge, pulls Woody into the dumpster, resulting in Andy's toys jumping in to save him just as the garbage truck arrives. All of them end up at the dump on a conveyor belt leading to an incinerator. Lotso, getting free with Woody and Buzz's help, reaches an emergency stop button, but decides at the last minute to abandon the others to be burned so that they can't return to Andy, as his beliefs remain unchanged. Unbeknownst to Lotso; however, his efforts are in vain as Andy's toys are saved by the Aliens using a giant claw. Hamm and Slinky wish to avenge themselves on Lotso for his betrayal, but Woody convinces them he isn't worth it, knowing that the dump is where he belongs. Lotso, meanwhile, attempts to escape the dump, but a garbage man (who had owned a Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear during his childhood) finds Lotso and straps him to the grill of his truck as a decoration. Lotso was intended to be in the first film, but the technology to represent realistic fur was not available until 2001's Monsters, Inc. An early version of Lotso makes a brief appearance in the first film, and can be seen in the second film